WSJ hires Thomas as mid-US bureau chief

Lily Thomas

The Wall Street Journal has hired Lily Thomas to be its mid-United States bureau chief.

Thomas has been the metro editor for the Houston Chronicle, where she led daily coverage and local news enterprise and investigative work.

She previously was assistant managing editor for news at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where her staff won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Tree of Life massacre. She taught journalism at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, as well as a master’s in anthropology from Brandeis University earned after working for several years on archaeological projects in Mexico.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.